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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infusion \In*fu"sion\, noun [L. infusio a pouring in: cf. F. infusion. See {Infuse}, verb (used with an object)]
1. The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.
Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. --Addison.
2. That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration.
His folly and his wisdom are of his own growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. --Swift.
3. The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. [Obs.] ''Baptism by infusion.'' --Jortin.
4. (Pharmacy) (a) The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its active principles. (b) The liquid extract obtained by this process.
Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. --Cowper.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infusion
noun
1: a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) [syn: {extract}]
2: the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water)
3: (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force)
4: the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality; "the team's continued success is attributable to a steady infusion of new talent"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "infusion": absorption and regurgitation, afflatus, affusion, animating spirit, animation, animus, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, brainwashing, brewing, catechization, chemical solution, chrismal, christening, concentrate, concentration, conditioning, dash, decoction, dictation, distillate, distillation, divine afflatus, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, elixir, embedment, enlivenment, entrance, essence, exhilaration, expression, extract, extraction, fire, firing, font, genius, graft, grafting, hint, imbruement, imbuement, immersion, impaction, impactment, implantation, impregnation, impression, inculcation, indoctrination, infection, infiltration, infixation, infixion, injection, inkling, inoculation, insertion, insinuation, inspiration, instillation, instillment, interjection, interpenetration, interpolation, intimation, introduction, intromission, leach, leachate, leaching, lixiviation, lixivium, maceration, marination, mixture, moving spirit, penetration, percolation, perfusion, permeation, pervasion, pressing, pulping, purification, quintessence, refinement, reindoctrination, rendering, rendition, saturation, sauce, seasoning, seething, shade, smack, soak, soakage, soaking, solution, sopping, soupcon, souse, sousing, spice, spirit, sprinkling, squeezing, steeping, suffusion, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tempering, tessellation, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, total immersion, touch, trace, transplant, transplantation, vestige
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